The run­ners- up are Sandy Wil­liams of Clare­mont for her pic­ture of Zurich, Switzer­land, and Mar­garet Luff of Kom­metjie for her pic­ture of ele­phants on the Chobe River in Botswana.

Wil­liams ad­mired the beau­ti­ful build­ings and the colour­ful flower boxes that dec­o­rated this pic­turesque Zurich street.

“I could hardly be­lieve just how all the build­ings and houses were so neatly dec­o­rated. You see flower boxes every­where, whether in the city or coun­try­side, in al­most ev­ery­one’s homes and even the ho­tels.

“Ev­ery­one seems to take so much pride with their boxes. They re­ally bright­ened the drea­ri­est of days.”

Luff was on a boat on the Chobe River watch­ing var­i­ous wild an­i­mals com­ing down for a drink.

“We had the priv­i­lege of watch­ing a herd of ele­phants swim across the river. It was awe­some to watch them wait­ing for each other and help­ing the younger ones, when they got tired, by let­ting them climb on their backs.” Com­pe­ti­tion rules: ● All pho­to­graphs must re­late to travel, and you may en­ter as many as you like.

● All pho­to­graphs must be dig­i­tal and high-res­o­lu­tion. No photo- graphs taken on cell­phones or pho­to­graphs smaller than 700KB will be ac­cepted.

● All pho­to­graphs must be sent as jpeg at­tach­ments and not em­bed­ded in MS Word doc­u­ments.

● Pho­tog­ra­phers must sup­ply their name and sur­name, as well as the sub­urb they live in, with a tele­phone num­ber and 50 to 100 words de­scrib­ing how they came to take the pic­ture they are sub­mit­ting.

Pho­to­graphs re­ceived with­out full de­tails and de­scrip­tion or cor­rect res­o­lu­tion will not be con­sid­ered for pub­li­ca­tion.

Pho­to­graphs must be sent to travel@ inl. co. za marked “Photo com­pe­ti­tion”. JUMBO THIRST: Mar­garet Luff took this pho­to­graph of a herd of ele­phant drink­ing, from a boat on the Chobe River, in Botswana.